[seek-taxon] FW: [News] DOI News - June 2005

[Beach, James H]

FYI

DOIs being used for Data sets in Germany, and in Names4Life.

"The IDF also welcomes a new General member, Names 4 Life, who intend to
use DOIs in a semantic resolution service for the life sciences."

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James H. Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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See the info on "Names4Life" below.  J

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DOI News - June 2005

DOI News is a public news release; information contained within this
newsletter can be reproduced and disseminated to all interested parties.

In this issue:

1. DOIs for Science Data -- latest developments 2. MarketLinks:
"Bringing the DOI into the book publishing mainstream"
3. digilibri: DOIs for image content
4. Annual IDF Members' meeting: "Value added"
5. IDF participates in Internet governance forum 6. Handle System
available for Grid applications
	

1. DOIs for Science Data -- latest developments

 From 1st May 2005, the International DOI Foundation welcomes our newest
Registration Agency, the German National Library of Science and
Technology (TIB), the world's largest library of science and technology.

TIB has been a member of the IDF since 2003 and now moves to
Registration Agency status with an initial 200,000 datasets already
registered and an expected 1million by the end of the year; and the aim
of widening the coverage in 2006, to become the registrant for any
scientific content that is a result of community funded research.

The IDF also welcomes a new General member, Names 4 Life, who intend to
use DOIs in a semantic resolution service for the life sciences. 
Scientific users will also be interested in the related news item 6
below, "Handle System available for Grid applications".

For further information see:

  o TIB Press Release (http://www.doi.org/news/TIBNews-050405.html) and
examples from TIB on the demonstrations section  of the DOI web site. 
(http://www.doi.org/demos.html)

  o Article "Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data". Data
Science Journal, Vol. 4, 18 March 2005. 
(http://www.doi.org/topics/050210CODATAarticleDSJ.pdf)

2.  MarketLinks: "Bringing the DOI into the book publishing mainstream"

At the recent Book Expo America, R.R. Bowker introduced its DOI
registration and application services under the name Marketlinks. 
Working with Content Directions Inc, Bowker's DOI-based applications
focus on extending book publishers' online marketing strategies.  The
DOI becomes a new core element of the 133-year old "Books in Print" 
publisher and ISBN agency's role as bibliographic publisher and
marketing and transaction services provider. Publishers already provide
ongoing streams of metadata to the Bowker "Books in Print" database: an
optional DOI prefix will now become an automatic opt-in within the
process of ISBN registration. Commenting on the announcement, the
research service EPS characterised the development as "bringing the DOI
into the book publishing mainstream... Despite earlier evidence of DOI
effectiveness, the book industry has shown characteristic caution in
adopting it as a linking standard.  Now, integrated with the industry's
core identification system, an inflection point should be near".

For further information see:

  o R.R.Bowker Press Release. 
(http://www.contentdirections.com/materials/PressReleases/PRESSRELEASE-B
owke
r.doc) 


  o EPS Insights 7 June: Bringing the DOI into the book publishing
mainstream (with links to EPS White papers on "Economic Benefits of the
DOI in Content Marketing"). 
(http://www.doi.org/topics/EPSInsights-7June2005-Bowker.pdf)

3. digilibri: DOIs for image content

The DOI Registration Agency mEDRA has announced a partnership program
with digilibri GbR (Germany) for the provision of DOI services in
Germany, Switzerland and Austria.  Digilibri, a new digital content
asset management company, will serve as the licensing, marketing and
service partner for publishers, online services, news agencies,
photographers, illustrators, authors, editors, libraries, and galleries
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Technical service and further
developments will be provided by mEDRA. Digilibri is pioneering the
development of metadata and identifier assignment to digital images and
other forms of content.

For further information, see:

  o mEDRA and digilibri Press Release. 
(http://www.doi.org/news/0506medradigilibri.html)

4. Annual IDF Members' meeting: "Value added"

The Annual IDF Members' Meeting was held on 14th June in Bologna, Italy.

  As usual, about half the participants were non-members, some attending
for the first time, and the meeting focused mainly on applications and
updates on progress. This year's theme was the value added by the DOI,
with a focus on two areas: a strategy review to determine the best
structure for the IDF in its next phase of growth, moving from a
member-supporting structure to an "operating federation" of Registration
Agencies; and the consolidation of the full DOI implementation (using
multiple resolution and a managed metadata component) through
standardization and related matter such as a patent policy. Underlying
these developments is the value which the DOI brings to applications,
now reflected in a new DOI factsheet "Value Added by the DOI System".

Presentations also included selected uses of DOI including the TIB DOI
Registration agency for scientific primary data (see #1 above); The
Publications Office of the EC (OPOCE); OECD use of DOIs with the aim of
each table or graph in an OECD publication containing a DOI leading to
an Excel file of data underlying the tables & graphs. A panel session
discussed a number of further potential types of applications and was
followed by a discussion on the need for, and use of, persistent
identifiers in licensing.

For further information, see:

  o Summary of IDF Annual Meeting 2005, and Presentations from this
meeting. 
(http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2005/agenda.html)

  o New DOI factsheet: "Value Added by the DOI System". 
(http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIValueAdded.html)

5. IDF participates in internet governance forum

IDF Director Norman Paskin participated in an invitation-only seminar,
as input for the World Summit on the Information Society, on Internet
governance, and presented "Two practical examples of issues in Internet
governance" which underlie the DOI effort: Naming Objects, and
Specifying What is Named. In a separate summarising contribution, K.N. 
Cukier of the Economist noted that "Allowing for alternative addressing
and navigation across the network, alongside a sanctioned 'legacy' DNS,
will be a balanced way to achieve diversity, experimentation and
progress, while also ensuring stability and reliability."

For further information see:

  o "Two practical examples of issues in Internet governance". Paper
presented 6 May 2005 at the Internet Governance Forum, Oxford Internet
Institute. (http://www.doi.org/topics/050504OIIDiscussionForum.pdf)

  o Full position papers from the Forum. 
(http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/specialevents/20050505_governance
_pos
ition_papers.pdf) 


  o Quote from Kenneth Neil Cukier (Technology Correspondent, The
Economist). (http://www.doi.org/recent_press.html#quotes)

6. Handle System available for Grid applications

The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), developer of
the Handle System technology used to provide DOI resolution, released on
29 April a Handle System Public License (HSPL v6.1) and Service
Agreement in coordination with the GRID Globus Alliance.  Handle
technology is made available under this public license as part of the
Globus Toolkit release 4.0, an open source software toolkit used for
building grids (advanced resource-sharing computing). The IDF welcomed
this announcement which continues CNRI's aim of encouraging wider use of
the Handle System and builds on the current position enjoyed by IDF RAs
as users of licensed Handle technology.
  	
For further information see:

  o Factsheet: "DOI and Handle". 
(http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIHandle.html)

  o CNRI Handle web site. (http://www.handle.net/)

  o Globus Toolkit. (http://www.globus.org/toolkit/)


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